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Is the so called " Valuable" female Desert going to lay the Golden egg?
At today's gold prices you better hope so!
In any other scenario they are just a pet.
Now let me get this strait! If I go and buy a female desert or desert cross and spend four years or more raising it ... with ALL of the "Special Things" that only female deserts require to reproduce" What would I be up against?

For One, everybody and there brothers are breeding yearling male deserts to anything that crawls. Being dominant or co dominant What is going to make The deserts worth any more than say Pastels or Spiders in a few years?

I ask for anyone who is selling female deserts to post on here Why the above isn't the case!

The way I see it in four years the above female Desert might be worth $100.00 above " Free To A Good Home".

Regards,

Daniel

I understand the point of your post but I'm choosing to nitpick a detail you mention twice...

Why does it take you 4 years to raise a female ball python? Mine take 18-24 months. I have a friend that has gotten god eggs from a snake that was 12 months old.

Sorry, I'd love to hear anyone speak up on female deserts but I'm not holding my breath.

It does vary. I do a crappy job of growing females up. I've not breed my own rodents regularly since I got married and seems half the time I can't get rodent suppliers to return my call. Couple that with a dud male here or there and I've got 6 - 7 year old girls producing their first clutches. Don't doubt others do much better and hope to cut my schedule in half some day ...